Well it would seem very messy coming from Scheme! Scheme is a small language which achieves expressiveness by allowing you great freedom to push the language i

Well it would seem very messy coming from Scheme! Scheme is a small language which achieves expressiveness by allowing you great freedom to push the language into bold new forms. Ruby (especially with Rails which should almost be considered a separate language) is a big language where simplicity is maintained by informal convention. Ruby has lots of muddles and messy features, good Ruby code bypasses them.